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  • Quarterly statistics including numbers of claims in payment, new claim registrations, decisions and awards made.

  • Outcomes of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals information.

  • The Benefit Cap is a limit on the total amount of benefit that working-age people can receive. From 31 May 2016, the amount a household could receive in benefit income was limited to £26,000 per annum. On 7 November 2016, th…

  • Progress on checking cases potentially affected by underpayments of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) on conversion from previous incapacity benefits.

  • Update of progress on checking cases potentially affected by underpayments of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) on conversion from other incapacity benefits.

  • Estimates of fraud and error levels in the benefit system in Great Britain in the financial year 2018 to 2019.

  • Quarterly statistics including numbers of claims in payment, new claim registrations, decisions and awards made.

  • Estimated numbers underpaid Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) on conversion from other incapacity benefits, forecast amounts owed and progress on assessing cases.

  • The Benefit Cap Report Northern Ireland analyses the impact of the introduction of the Benefit Cap in June 2016, until January 2019. It looks at the geographical spread of those on the cap, as well as the family make up and…

  • Official experimental statistics for the number of people on Universal Credit.

  • Income Dynamics experimental statistics look at changes in household income including a measure of persistent low income. The data is for 2010 to 2017.

  • Official experimental statistics including the number of people and households on Universal Credit, starts and claims.

  • Quarterly statistics including numbers of claims in payment, new claim registrations, decisions and awards made.

  • Outcomes of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessments, including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals information.

  • Twice-yearly publication on Housing Benefit debt recoveries.

  • Statistics on households that have had their benefits capped between 15 April 2013 and November 2018.

  • Outcomes of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessments including mandatory reconsiderations and appeals information.

  • Provides summary statistics on the the impact of the Benefit Cap policy in Northern Ireland and on the demographics of affected households.

  • Quarterly statistics including numbers of claims in payment, new claim registrations, decisions and awards made.

  • This report presents findings on Housing Benefit fraud and error and limiting absences outside Great Britain, and changes to local authority structures and services.